Jen Noble, a graduate student in the Palanivelu lab, the University of Arizona, won the Willemse Award
(certificate + $300) at the recently concluded Plant Reproduction 2016 conference. The award is given by
International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction (IASPRR) for the best poster presentation in the
biannual conference.
The award was presented by Dr. Tetsuya Higashiyama, President of IASPRR, on 3/22/16 during the Plant
Reproduction 2016 dinner banquet in the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
Along with Jen, Hidenori Takeuchi of the Higashiyama lab also won the Willemse Awardfor best poster
presentation. The poster competition was open to all graduate students and post doctoral fellows who
attended the conference.
Congratulations Jen!
Jen Noble’s poster information:
Evolutionary and Functional Analysis of LORELEI, a GPI-Anchored Membrane Protein Involved in Pollen
Tube Reception in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jennifer Noble, Mark Beilstein, and Ravishankar Palanivelu
School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson